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The KNode Handbook

Stephan Johach

Thomas Schütz

Developer and maintainer: Christian Gebauer
 Developer: Christian Thurner
 Developer: Dirk Mueller
 Developer: Mark Mutz
 Developer: Roberto Teixeira
 Developer: Mathias Waack
Revision 4.7.0 (KDE 4.7) (2011-08-01)

Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002 Stephan Johach, Thomas Schütz

KNode is an easy-to-use newsreader.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Working with KNode
The first start
Personal settings
Configuring the news account
Setting up the mail account
Defining the appearance
General News Settings
Navigation
Scoring rules
Filter settings
Headers
Viewer
Settings for publishing articles
The Composer Settings
Spelling
Signing/Verifying
Article Cleanup
Working with newsgroups
Fetching the group-list from the news server
Fetching and reading Articles
Writing and Replying to Articles
The Advanced KNode Features
Defining and Using Filters
The Composer
Searching for Articles
Supersede and Cancel Articles
Score, watch, ignore
Group identities
Managing Multiple News Accounts
Sign and Verify Articles with PGP
3. Command reference
The main KNode window
The File menu
The Edit menu
The View menu
The Go menu
The Account menu
The Group menu
The Folder menu
The Article menu
The Scoring menu
The Settings menu
The Help menu
The Composer Menus
The File menu
The Edit menu
The Attach menu
The Options menu
The Tools menu
The Settings menu
The Help menu
4. Questions and Answers
5. A journey in the World of Newsgroups
What are ...
... online-readers?
... offline-readers?
... newsgroups?
... news?
... threads?
Online Manners
The Usenet language
RTFM and other typos
Smile!
PLONK!
6. Further Information
Informative Newsgroups
Test Groups
Informative technical articles in the world wide web
Informative technical articles
7. Credits and License
A. Installation
Where do I get KNode?
Requirements
Compile and install
Glossary

List of Tables

5.1. Acronyms on Usenet

List of Examples

2.1. Show the newsreader used for a post in the article window
2.2. Message-ID
2.3. An example introductory line